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Draw Shapes Introduction

What shape did Daniel draw?

Goal:

Goal:

Daniel is having his friends over for a party this weekend. He is planning to have different activities setup around his backyard for everyone to do. He wants to map out where each activity should go. On a piece of paper, Daniel draws this 4-sided shape to represent his backyard:

A drawing of Daniel's backyard. It is shaped like a rectangle. Daniel wants to use this to map out the activties for the party.

As he is drawing, Daniel’s mom walks by him. She stops, looks at his paper, and says, “That’s a nice parallelogram you drew.” Daniel looks at her confused and says, “I didn’t draw a parallelogram. This is a rectangle.”

Question

What shape did Daniel draw? Was it a rectangle or a parallelogram?

It is both! A rectangle can also be called a parallelogram based on the definitions of both shapes.

Let’s use attributes to draw quadrilaterals and learn about the different names we can call each shape!